Drama

• The White Crow | Blu Ray | (05/08/2019) from £4.68   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young man of just 22, dressed in a black beret and a dark narrow suit, is on an aeroplane flying from St Petersburg to Paris. It is 1961 and Rudolf Nureyev, not yet the imperious figure of legend, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling for the first time outside the Soviet Union. Parisian life delights Nureyev and the young dancer is eager to consume all the culture, art and music the dazzling city has to offer. But the KGB officers who watch his every move become increasingly suspicious of his behaviour and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint. When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger. From Nureyev's poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at the epicentre of western culture in Paris in the early 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget airport, THE WHITE CROW is the true story of an incredible journey by a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever.

• The Protectors: The Complete Series | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £22.93   |  Saving you £37.06 (161.62%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Each of the world's major cities has its best detective agency and each of these has its best agents; super-agents like The Protectors.The most sensitive baffling dangerous assignments are handled by this trio of adventurers with no equal among private eyes. In their nerve-tingling assignments they function as a highly trained team but they know that the next mission might mean death - and they live as if each moment were their last. Robert Vaughn stars as Harry Rule the suave American who leads their operations and works from a London office; Nyree Dawn Porter is the elegant Rome-based Contessa di Contini and Tony Anholt is Paul Buchet a French agent operating out of a Paris apartment. Produced by Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill (Thunderbirds) this glossy stylish series was one of ITC's most lavish and ambitious projects boasting intriguing action-packed storylines and location filming in some of Europe's most glamorous cities. John Thaw Diana Quick Stephanie Beacham Peter Bowles Patrick Troughton and George Baker are among the many stars making guest appearances while Tony Christie sings the show's theme tune Avenues and Alleyways - a UK Top 40 hit on its re-release in 2005. This 7-disc set comprises all 52 half-hour episodes originally aired between 1972 and 1974.

• The Bells Of St Mary's | Blu Ray | (07/10/2019) from £19.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After triumphing at the Academy Awards® (including wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor) with the 1944 box office smash Going My Way, director Leo McCarey (Duck Soup) and star Bing Crosby immediately collaborated on the equally successful follow-up, The Bells of St Mary s, presented here in a heavenly 4K restoration. Father Chuck O Malley (Crosby) is dispatched to fix up an inner-city parochial school on its last legs, and his easygoing, unconventional demeanour instantly clashes with that of the firm, no-nonsense Sister Superior Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman, fresh off winning the Best Actress Oscar® for Gaslight), who is keeping the school open through sheer will and faith alone. Over the course of the school year, the pair bicker and ultimately bond over their differing visions on how to save the school and the role a miserly businessman (Henry Travers, It s A Wonderful Life) who wants the building condemned might play in doing so. A blockbuster crowdpleaser on its release, The Bells of St Mary s remains just as affecting today, thanks to McCarey s directorial light touch, Crosby s laidback charisma and iconic singing voice, and Bergman s radiant charm, all of which earned them well-deserved Oscar® nominations. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: 4K restoration of the film from Paramount High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentation Original lossless mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Up to His Neck in Nuns, an all-new visual essay by David Cairns Analysing O Malley, a newly filmed appreciation by chaplain and film academic Revd Dr Steve Nolan You Can Change The World, a 30-minute promotional film for The Christophers from 1949 directed by McCarey and featuring appearances from Crosby, Bob Hope, Irene Dunne, William Holden and Jack Benny, presented in high definition Two Screen Guild Theater radio adaptations starring Crosby and Bergman, plus an additional radio featurette Re-release theatrical trailer Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jennifer Dionisio FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully illustrated booklet containing new writing on the film by Ronald Bergen

• Fifty Shades of Grey Digibook | Blu Ray | (02/11/2015) from £6.72   |  Saving you £34.53 (632.42%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Fifty Shades of Grey is the hotly anticipated film adaptation of the #1 bestselling book by E L James. Fifty Shades of Grey follows the relationship of 27-year-old handsome billionaire Christian Grey and innocent college student Anastasia Steele. Since its release, the Fifty Shades trilogy has been translated into 51 languages worldwide and sold more than 100 million copies in e-book and printmaking it one of the biggest and fastest-selling book series ever. Stepping into the roles of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, who have become iconic to millions of readers, are Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson. Fifty Shades of Grey is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and produced by Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti alongside E L James, the creator of the series. The screenplay for the film is by Kelly Marcel.

• The Rainbow Jacket | DVD | (12/07/2021) from £8.33   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ealing Films' exciting horseracing drama features a memorable performance from Bill Owen as a jockey with a troubled past. Also starring Kay Walsh, Robert Morley and Fella Edmonds as a young boy with dreams of being a professional jockey, The Rainbow Jacket was filmed on many of the country's key racecourses including Newmarket, Epsom and Sandown Park and is featured here as a remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Sam Lilley, a champion jockey who has lost his license, trains young George a keen racegoer with ambitions to ride professionally. But when George gets his first race it comes down to a photo-finish and Sam has bet heavily on the boy winning. Special Features: Brand-new 2021 interview with Fella Edmonds Racing at Ealing: a short featurette on the making of The Rainbow Jacket featuring archive interview footage Theatrical trailer Image gallery Limited edition booklet written by Neil Sinyard

• Grease 3-Movie Collection | Blu Ray | (13/07/2026) from £13.36   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brotherhood | Blu Ray | (26/12/2016) from £7.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  'Brotherhood' is the third instalment of the trilogy from BAFTA award-winning actor, writer and director Noel Clarke.

• SOLARIS | Blu Ray | (03/04/2017) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1972, Solaris is Andrei Tarkovsky's third feature and his most far-reaching examination of human perceptions and failings. It's often compared to Kubrick's 2001, but although both bring a metaphysical dimension to bear on space exploration, Solaris has a claustrophobic intensity which grips the attention over spans of typically Tarkovskian stasis. Donatas Banionis is sympathetic as the cosmonaut sent to investigate disappearances on the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to be confronted by his past in the guise of his dead wife, magnetically portrayed by Natalya Bondarchuk. The ending is either a revelation or a conceit, depending on your viewpoint. On the DVD: Solaris reproduces impressively on DVD in widescreen--which is really essential here--and Eduard Artemiev's ambient score comes over with pristine clarity. There are over-dubs in English and French, plus subtitles in 12 languages. An extensive stills gallery, detailed filmographies for cast and crew, and comprehensive biographies of Tarkovsky and author Stanislaw Lem are valuable extras, as are the interviews with Bondarchuk and Tarkovsky's sister and an amusing 1970s promo-film for Banionis. It would have been better had the film been presented complete on one disc, instead of stretched over two. Even so, the overall package does justice to a powerful and disturbing masterpiece. --Richard Whitehouse

• Joanna | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Billed on the film's original release as 'the female Alfie' seventeen-year-old Joanna is cool stylish and determined to start a new life as an art student in swinging London. Played with gusto by Genevive Wate Joanna indulges in the pleasures of casual sexual encounters colourful daydreams and an impromptu trip to Morocco with the wise and debonair Lord Peter Sanderson (wonderfully played by Donald Sutherland). But when Joanna falls in love with Gordon from Sierra Leone her life begins to get complicated.

• Good Will Hunting | DVD | (22/01/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Robin Williams won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck nabbed one for Best Original Screenplay, but the feel-good hit Good Will Hunting triumphs because of its gifted director, Gus Van Sant. The unconventional director (My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) saves a script marred by vanity and clunky character development by yanking soulful, touching performances out of his entire cast (amazingly, even one by Williams that's relatively schtick-free). Van Sant pulls off the equivalent of what George Cukor accomplished for women's melodrama in the 1930s and 40s: He's crafted an intelligent, unabashedly emotional male weepie about men trying to find inner-wisdom. Matt Damon stars as Will Hunting, a closet maths genius who ignores his gift in favour of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben Affleck among them). While working as a university janitor, he solves an impossible calculus problem scribbled on a hallway blackboard and reluctantly becomes the prodigy of an arrogant MIT professor (Stellan Skarsgård). Damon only avoids prison by agreeing to see psychiatrists, all of whom he mocks or psychologically destroys until he meets his match in the professor's former childhood friend, played by Williams. Both doctor and patient are haunted by the past and, as mutual respect develops, the healing process begins. The film's beauty lies not with grand climaxes, but with small, quiet moments. Scenes such as Affleck's clumsy pep talk to Damon while they drink beer after work, or any number of therapy session between Williams and Damon offer poignant looks at the awkward ways men show affection and feeling for one another. --Dave McCoy

• Agatha Raisin - Series 3 | DVD | (06/07/2020) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hangman | DVD | (22/10/2018) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game HANGMAN, while crime journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives. The trio races against the clock to prevent the murders, as every 24 hours, a body is hung revealing a new letter of the game carved into the backs or chests of the victims.

• HEART OF STONE (Das kalte Herz) (Masters of Cinema) Limited Edition Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (23/06/2025) from £20.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Noah's Castle | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It is the near future and Britain faces social and economic collapse . Hyper-inflation leads to rioting and choric food shortages but Norman Mortimer is determined to protect his loved ones from the encroaching chaos. Mortimer moves his family to a large house in the country and strengthens the cellar in preparation to hoard the food they will need to survive. The Mortimer children are shocked by their fathers behaviour and argue that food should be fairly distributed to all those who need it. As the crisis deepens the Mortimer's arouse the suspicions of starving neighbours blackmailers and the ruthless criminal Vince Holloway. As Norman struggles to keep his fueding family together news of the secret food store spreads and his 'castle' comes under siege...

• Contagion | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Contagion [Irish Version]

• Magnolia | Blu Ray | (29/06/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (80.08%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A handful of people in California's San Fernando Valley are having one hell of a day. TV mogul Earl Partridge (Jason Robards) is on his deathbed and his trophy wife (Julianne Moore) is stockpiling tranquilliser prescriptions all over town with alarming determination. Earl's nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying desperately to get in touch with Earl's only son, sex-guru Frank TJ Mackey (Tom Cruise), who's about to have his carefully constructed past blown by a TV reporter (April Grace). Whiz kid Stanley (Jeremy Blackman) is being goaded by his selfish dad into breaking the record for the game show What Do Kids Know? Meanwhile, Stanley's predecessor, the grown-up quiz kid Donnie Smith (William H. Macy) has lost his job and is nursing a severe case of unrequited love. And the host of What Do Kids Know?, the affable Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), like Earl, is dying of cancer, and his attempt to reconcile with his cokehead daughter (Melora Walters) fails miserably. She, meanwhile, is running hot and cold with a cop (John C. Reilly) who would love to date her, if she can sit still for long enough. And over it all, a foreboding sky threatens to pour something more than just rain. This third feature from Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) is a maddening, magnificent piece of film-making, and an ensemble film to rank with the best of Robert Altman (Short Cuts, Nashville)--every little piece of the film means something, solidly placed for a reason. Deftly juggling a breathtaking ensemble of actors, Anderson crafts a tale of neglectful parents, resentful children, and love-starved souls that's amazing in scope, both thematically and emotionally. Part of the charge of Magnolia is seeing exactly how many characters Anderson can juggle, and can he keep all those balls in the air (indeed he can, even if it means throwing frogs into the mix). And it's been far too long since we've seen a film-maker whose love of making movies is so purely joyful. This electric energy is reflected in the actors, from Cruise's revelatory performance to Reilly's quietly powerful turn as the moral centre of the story. While at three hours it's definitely not suited to everyone's taste, Magnolia is a compelling, heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful meditation on the accidents of chance that make up our lives. The soundtrack features eight wonderful songs by Aimee Mann, including "Save Me", around which Anderson built the script. --Mark Englehart

• Laura | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Sculptor Paul meets a former great love again after a long time - but is much more impressed by her 15 years old daughter Laura who looks now like her mother when Paul was in love with her. Laura likes him very much too but her jealous mother prevents any further contact. She allows him to make a sculpture of Laura but only from photos...

• Blood Diamond | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £10.96   |  Saving you £14.03 (128.01%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A mercenary and a Mende fisherman join forces in a quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives.

• 90 Minutes In Heaven | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £11.02   |  Saving you £6.97 (63.25%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Don Piper (Hayden Christensen) died January 18, 1989 when a truck crushed his car. Declared dead by the first rescue workers to arrive on the scene, Don's body lay under a tarp for the next 90 minutes. When a pastor's prayers helped bring Don back to life, he became a living miracle! Yet this is one miracle Don wished never happened as his injuries resulted in excruciating pain and emotional turmoil. With the support and love of his beloved wife Eva (Kate Bosworth), their three children, and friends near and far, Don fights to regain a semblance of his previous life. Based on the true story, the Piper family's incredible journey of perseverance and overcoming the challenges of lifeand death will bring hope and encouragement to all who see it.

• Take Out (2004) (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (17/10/2022) from £25.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in the raw, vérité Take Out, by SEAN BAKER (The Florida Project) and SHIH-CHING TSOU (producer, Tangerine), an immersion in the life of an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to get by on the margins of post9/11 New York City. Facing violent retaliation from a loan shark, restaurant deliveryman Ming Ding (CHARLES JANG) has until nightfall to pay back the money he owes, and he encounters both crushing setbacks and moments of unexpected humanity as he races against time to earn enough in tips over the course of a frantic day. From this simple setup, Baker and Tsou fashion a kind of neorealist survival thriller of the everyday, shedding compassionate light on the too often overlooked lives and labor that keep New York running. Product Features New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack Audio commentary featuring Baker, Tsou, and actor Charles Jang New interviews with Baker, Tsou, Jang, and actors Wang-Thye Lee and Jeng-Hua Yu Program about the making of the film Deleted scenes Screen test Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and author J. J. Murphy